TORONTO, May 27, 2013 – Waging war not with bullets and bombs but with carefully chosen words and gifts from the heart, fans of TV’s Bomb Girls continue to fight to get their show back on the air.

Almost exactly a month after Bomb Girls was cancelled by Global TV, a shipment of 1,000 blue bandanas stamped with “Keep Calm and Save Bomb Girls” was sent to the Global TV offices in downtown Toronto on Friday. This shipment of ‘Victory Bandanas’ was funded entirely by donations from Bomb Girls fans, who raised more than $5,500 in three weeks.

These head scarves are meant to mimic those worn by the Victory Munitions factory workers on the show, while carrying the fans’ potent message. Individual fans who donated more than $25 received a printed bandana of their very own, and photos of Victory Bandanas on display have already started pouring in.

The hope is that such a significant show of support, passion, and love will send the message to Global TV that fans want their show back on the air and will do nearly anything to get it there.

The fundraiser is still ongoing, having already collected enough proceeds to dedicate well over $1,000 to charity. Save Bomb Girls is proud to be supporting the Ajax Bomb Girls Legacy Campaign, a community project to build a monument to the real Bomb Girls of World War II, as well as all other women war workers.

Save Bomb Girls started out with an original goal for the Victory Bandanas fundraiser of $1,000; by raising more than five times that amount, Bomb Girls fans have shown their mettle and their determination. They want a third season, and they aren’t afraid to fight for it. Carry on, Bomb Girls.

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Bomb Girls Fans Raise The Bar With ‘Victory Bandanas’

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TORONTO, May 3, 2013 — A campaign is underway on the homefront, as fans of the Canadian TV series Bomb Girls continue to fight to save their show.

Bomb Girls, filmed and set in Toronto, is based on the bomb factories staffed by women in Ajax and Etobicoke during the Second World War. Despite having won several industry awards and maintaining solid ratings during season two, Global TV cancelled the show last week with an announcement that loose plot ends would be tied up in a TV movie in 2014.

Fans from all over the world were not satisfied, and they are making their voices heard. Since the cancellation, Global TV and Shaw Media offices have been flooded with emails, postcards, and heartfelt letters spelling out how much Bomb Girls has touched their lives. Online petitions have collected more than a total of 4,000 signatures. Local fans personally delivered boxes with show-related props to Global TV offices in downtown Toronto.

This week, the largest campaign yet has launched: Buy Victory Bandanas! Modeled after Victory Bond drives during the war, the campaign is collecting funds to pay for a shipment of fan-designed blue bandanas to Global TV offices, with the aim to make a potent statement. Any proceeds beyond the goal amount will be donated to the Ajax Bomb Girls Legacy Campaign, a community initiative to build a monument to the real women of the war movement.

The fundraiser started with a bang, reaching its original target of CDN$1,000 in less than twelve hours—and the second target of CDN$2,000 in only twelve more! The Global TV offices should start making room for boxes of Victory Bandanas arriving on their doorstep.

“If audiences can rally to save "Bomb Girls," then maybe Global — and other Canadian networks — will finally recognize the need for original Canadian content,” an article on Yahoo! Canada states. While outside of Canada, the show found a home and fervent support from Reelz Channel in the US and ITV in the UK, Bomb Girls set out to prove that it is time Canadian networks gave their homegrown productions a fighting chance—a notion that the Save Bomb Girls campaign is avidly and fully supporting with continuing determination and energy.

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Fans of TV Series 'Bomb Girls' Unite To Save The Show

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TORONTO, April 27, 2013 — Fans of Global TV’s Bomb Girls have gathered online from across Canada, the United States, and overseas in a bid to save their show from cancellation.

Bomb Girls, the award-winning period drama about female munitions workers in a Toronto factory during the Second World War, is filmed and set in Canada. Being aired on Global TV in Canada, Reelz Channel in the U.S., and ITV in the United Kingdom, Bomb Girls has gathered fans from every corner of the globe, and they are rallying together to try and save the show.

On April 22, prior to the end of the second season, Global announced that they would not be producing a third season of Bomb Girls; instead there are plans for a two-hour TV movie to tie up any leftover loose ends.

Though fans were disappointed by the news, they immediately mobilized: current campaigns include two petitions with a total of over 3,000 signatures; email and letter-writing campaigns; active Twitter hashtags; and an in-progress plan to send items related to the show to Global headquarters.

Why the campaigns? Fans want a change of heart and a much-deserved third season, or at the very least assurances that the TV movie will in fact make it to television screens. It is not only their passion that motivates these campaigns, but the knowledge that there are so many more important, historical, and women-centred stories to be told. These rich, layered characters deserve their chance to be heard.

Bomb Girls actors have expressed their regret at the cancellation of the show, and Rosie O’Donnell, who guest starred as a reporter in a season two episode, has said, “Bomb Girls is an amazing show about real women in Canada during WW2. It’s quality television, moving and poignant, it deserves another season.”